he is tall. (Troels Thorkild Sørensen) was here as recently as mid February with the second chapter of his US road trip story he undertook a couple of years ago, paying homage to his travelling companion that he since fell out with, ‘Mr American Pie’.
I half suspected there might be a third chapter in this story, one that wraps up loose ends in a kiss-and-make-up Mills & Boon style.
Instead he’s blindsided me and everyone else that was following the mini saga by choosing to write about a demon that’s gotten into his head, quite a while ago it seems (“at an early age”); the sort of anti-Muse, internalised critic that all artists fear.
It has moved in permanently now into its own squat and it’s sitting on a chaise lounge in his mind with a fresh-squeezed ‘lemonade’ made out of his bad memories, having fun with his over-thinking, insecurity, and ingrained inferiority complex.
I reckon he’s hit on something that equally bothers a lot of other people; that voice in your head that consistently tells you, “don’t do that, you’ll make a fool of yourself.”
Anyway, he thinks it might all have started when he read comic books. At least his shrink is sure of it.
What I’m not sure about is what the second part of the song concerns.
It references “weeping for bad memories” as the demon blows cigar smoke that wraps around his head and inside his mind and he demands a text reading “I love you” and that he is awaiting a reply. He concludes with “I hate you, that’s enough”.
It got me wondering if this is actually is Part 3 of that trilogy.
Whatever the truth, he is tall. delivers the story in what is becoming his trademark matter of fact, disarming manner. It really is a poem set to music and he has no contemporary peers that I know of that are even attempting this.
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The Carnival Cruise (Denmark) – Horizon (single)
The Carnival Cruise is Lars Bredahl’s band, in a different guise to how we know him (the band Lush Lullaby) and with a more ‘poppy’ style than those found in previous releases by Lush Lullaby, and with more keys in use.
Lush Lullaby is an 80s sounding rock band with some punkish elements. Lars reckons the new style of The Carnival Cruise could be labeled ‘alt-pop’.
I’d rather call it ‘alt-punk’ and even if that does not stray too far from the original.
It’s dark and brooding, as if the watch boy had spotted an iceberg straight ahead on the ‘Horizon’ but then lost his voice or became incapacitated in some other way and that prompted the cruise liner to take an early journey to a watery grave.
And in the bridge there’s a repeated bass line that sounds like someone sending out a Mayday message via Morse Code while Lars pleads “don’t let me down”.
It’s all rather surreal but that’s the way I like it. Just listening to anything that Lars is involved with takes me back to my teenage days in dank dirty basement clubs where musos played with the commitment that suggested their lives depended on it.
You hear and see so little of it here today, but clearly that commitment has not deserted Denmark.
We have no social page links for The Carnival Cruise yet but you can find Lush Lullaby on:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lushlullaby
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lush.lullaby/
